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From: alfred!ucf-cs!aol.com!RSchatte

CNI News - Volume 15.1
February 1, 1996
Published by the ISCNI News Center
Editor: Michael Lindemann

The stories in this edition of CNI News are:
   1) ABDUCTEE PUSHES GOVT TO INVESTIGATE HUMAN
       PERPETRATORS
   2) LIFE ON MARS: MORE LIKELY THAN NOT, SCIENTISTS SAY
   3) PROFESSOR SAYS KILL A BIGFOOT TO PROVE IT'S REAL
   4) "DARK" PLANES ALTERED AVIATION, PROMPTED UFO HYSTERIA
       Review: "Dark Eagles: A History of Top Secret U.S. Aircraft"

ISCNI encourages you to respond to stories in CNI News.
   * Public responses can be posted on the Forum message board in "News
Center Feedback"
   * Private responses can be emailed to ISCNI, subj: CNI News Editor

The subject matter of CNI News is inherently controversial, and the views and
opinions reported in the news are not necessarily those of ISCNI or its
staff.

The next edition of CNI News will appear on Monday, February 5.

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1) ABDUCTEE PUSHES GOVT TO INVESTIGATE HUMAN PERPETRATORS

A Federal investigator has begun looking into possible military and
government involvement in abduction, mind control, and harassment of alien
abduction experiencers.

Among the most disturbing claims made in connection with the alien abduction
phenomenon is the claim that some abductions are perpetrated by humans, often
thought to be military, sometimes in apparent collaboration with aliens and
sometimes not. A large number of abductees believe their experiences include
a mix of alien and human intrusions. Many other abductees believe they are
monitored by some human agency which tracks the abductee's alien contact.

A vocal minority of researchers studying the claims of abductees theorize
that all abductions are actually the product of human activity, perhaps
involving kidnap, mind control, intrusive medical procedures and more -- but
not involving aliens.

Karla Turner was one of the more notable researchers who documented abduction
cases that seemed to involve both human and alien perpetrators. Leah Haley is
one of the better known abductees who insists she has been taken by both
aliens and human military personnel.

Now an abductee named Kathy Kasten has initiated an effort to bring evidence
of human involvement in abductions to the attention of the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services. Kasten has employed an ingenious approach which
has gotten the attention of Donna Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human
Services. Kasten says that if these abductions involve human perpetrators,
they are in violation of specific laws demanding informed consent from all
human subjects in medical experiments. An investigation of Kasten's charges
is now beginning.

Kathy Kasten has sent a letter to health practitioners and therapists who
work with abductees, asking for assistance in gathering information from
abduction experiencers who recall human perpetrators. Her letter is
reproduced below. CNI News encourages any reader who feels inclined to share
personal information of this kind with Kathy Kasten to contact her at the
address shown below.

This is the text of Kathy Kasten's letter, dated January 29, 1996.

Dear Researchers and Abductees/Experiencers:

I have been in contact with Donna Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human
Services, in an effort to persuade her to begin an investigation of the
covert research involving abductees/experiencers.  The reason I did this is
because Federal regulations, mandated in 1974, require that all human
subjects involved in research must sign an Informed Consent Form (ICF).  The
ICF is a legal document which states who is performing the research, the
duration of the study period, the reason the research/study is being done,
the procedures to be performed, the possible risks/side effects of the
procedures, certain required statements -- such as, informing the subject
that they are free to refuse to participate in the research at any time --
and requires the subject's signature.  In the case of children 12 years old
and under, a parent's signature is required and a simplified form of the ICF
is given to the child.  As far as I know, I did not sign an ICF; therefore, I
know that the research involving abductees/ experiencers is illegal/covert,
and so stated this fact to the Secretary.

In order to proceed with the investigation, Lana R. Skirboll, Ph.D.,
Director, Office of Science Policy and Program Planning, one of the people
from NIH assigned by the Secretary to contact me, informed me by letter
(dated August 29, 1994) that she needs certain information from the
individuals involved in the covert research project.  This is the reason for
contacting you.  I realize the effort it will take to put the information
together in a coherent manner, in a way which can be understood by someone
not involved in dealing with abductees/experiences, but it is a good cause.
That cause being to call for a government agency to undertake an
investigation into the covert research and to stop it until Federal
regulations are met.  Once that happens and the research is brought under
this agency scrutiny, the research can proceed, individuals will then be
cognizant of what they are participating in and be apprised of their rights
under Federal regulations.

Instead of going directly to the public, I thought that it would be better to
ask you to contact clients you think are creditable and wish to participate
to answer Dr. Skirboll questions.  Creditability is a sensitive issue,
because we are dealing with a government agency who does not even acknowledge
the phenomena of abduction.  The answers need to provide specific information
to allow the Secretary's office to begin an investigation.
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 From : Don Allen                   1:3618/2                02 Feb 96  18:05:58 
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From: alfred!ucf-cs!aol.com!RSchatte

Please ask anyone you consider to be a reliable witness (i.e., someone having
some type of physical proof of an abduction) the following questions:

   1.   Can you name the institution to which you were taken?  Where the
research was conducted?  Can you name/describe the contact point?  How were
you transported?  (If it you know the name of the building or the address,
provide it.  If military personnel were present, state which service.)

   2.   Can you describe the investigator performing the procedures?  Did
s/he state their name?  (If the researchers looked human, then so state.  Try
to look beyond the paradoxical answers usually given, to an event that caused
you to think that maybe you were, in fact, dealing with humans.)

   3.   In order to help determine where funding for the research might have
come from, can you remember whether the investigators wore uniforms/white
coats with any patches or identifying markings?  Did the investigator tell
you who s/he worked for?  (To help answer this question, provide information
on signage you might have seen in the hallways and clinical areas where the
procedures took place.)

   4.   In as few words as possible, describe the procedures.  (If you know
the clinical terms, please utilize them.)

   5.   Did the investigator/researcher tell you the name of the research
project?  (Again, look past the paradoxical answers usually given. Perhaps
there was a moment when one of the researchers said something to a co-worker
when they thought you were not paying attention.)

It will be necessary to provide specific information to Dr. Skirboll, such as
name and address, so that she can verify the where and who is performing the
research.  Remember, I contacted NIH; they did not contact me.  There is no
way to go forward with an investigation into the covert research projects
without providing this information.  It is the policy of the agency to keep
all information confidential.  I understand the hesitation, but the agency is
bound by an oath of confidentiality.  And, the only way to stop the abduction
from happening is to bring everything out into the open.

If we can provide verifiable information to Dr. Skirboll, I have been assured
that the matter will be pursued.  I think it is time for this covert research
to be stopped and brought to light so that the research can be brought under
federal regulations.  Then, if anyone wishes to participate, they will be
able to sign an informed consent form, as described at the beginning of this
letter.  Please help me in this worthwhile effort.

Thank you,

Kathy Kasten
1093 Broxton #607
Los Angeles, CA 90024
KKASTEN@pathology.medsch.ucla.edu

Please share this information. We are interested in all comments.

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2) LIFE ON MARS: MORE LIKELY THAN NOT, SCIENTISTS SAY

[A new book titled "Cosmic Voyage: A Scientific Discovery of
Extraterrestrials Visiting Earth" by Courtney Brown, Ph.D., associate
professor of political science at Emory University, claims that the author
and others have used "scientific remote viewing" to positively verify alien
activity on the earth. The same technique, Brown says, has shown that Mars
was and is still inhabited by an advanced humanoid race. Meanwhile, Professor
Stanley McDaniel, author of "The McDaniel Report" (which discusses anomalous
structures on Mars), is currently urging NASA to give high priority to
studying the region of Mars called Cydonia during the next Mars exploratory
mission, due to arrive in 1997. Cydonia contains the famous "Face on Mars,"
which some researchers regard as evidence of an ancient intelligent race on
Mars. While Brown's claims are deemed questionable, at best, by most
scientists, and NASA officially denies that "the Face" could be artificial,
it is nonetheless true that mainstream science now considers some form of
life on Mars to be highly likely, as recounted in the following story, which
appeared in the Electronic Telegraph on January 30.]

By Roger Highfield, Science Editor

Scientists now believe that it is likely that life once thrived on Mars and
may still exist under its surface, a seminar was told yesterday (Jan 29).

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 From : Don Allen                   1:3618/2                02 Feb 96  18:07:00 
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Earlier this month, a meeting of the American Astronomical Society stirred
debate about possible extraterrestrial life with the discovery of new planets
outside the Solar system. Now, however, it seems increasingly likely that
alien life might be on our doorstep.

"Most of us here believe that there is a significant probability that there
was life on Mars," Prof. Malcolm Walter of Macquarie University, Australia,
told an international meeting organised by the charitable Ciba Foundation in
London. "If we didn't believe it, we would not be doing what we are doing."

This year sees the 20th anniversary of the Viking mission to Mars. It failed
to find evidence of life and subsequent meetings of "exobiologists" came to
the disappointing conclusion that conditions on the surface of the Red Planet
are not conducive to life -- certainly not life as we know it.

Now, however, NASA is planning Mars missions that will hunt for fossil
evidence. One issue already under discussion is the risk of contaminating
Earth if one of these missions returned with samples containing spores or
microbes.

The belief that life might exist on Mars has been supported by studies of
microbes thriving in extreme conditions on Earth. Last October, the Pacific
Northwest Laboratory in Richland found primitive bacteria tough enough to
survive on the Red Planet.

Called hyperthermophiles, these organisms can live without oxygen or light in
temperatures between 85 deg C and 113 deg C, said Professor Karl Stetter of
the University of Regensburg.

The microbes derive their nutrition from water and rock.

Mars-like conditions have been found deep under north Alaska, said Professor
Stetter. Although the soil is frozen to a depth of 400 metres, it is
sufficiently warm at even greater depths to support huge communities of
hyperthermophiles.

Scientists believe that conditions for life could have emerged on Mars
between three billion and four billion years ago, when the planet was warmer
and wetter.

When the atmosphere of the planet was lost, more than two billion years ago,
Mars cooled and its surface dried to leave valleys, channels and polar ice
caps.

"The idea is that life would have taken a dive under the surface, tracking
the habitable zone of liquid water," said Dr. Jack Farmer, of NASA's Ames
Research Centre.

To test this theory, in December the first in a series of missions will be
launched to study a site where rapid mineral precipitation could have
entombed Martian organisms.

In July 1997 a probe will enter the thin Martian atmosphere and land on the
planet's cold surface, which is below freezing point. The lander will release
a tethered robot which will roam around and analyse the composition of the
terrain. However, conclusive evidence of traces of life might have to wait
until 2005, when a mission will attempt to return samples to Earth.

Professor Paul Davies, of the University of Adelaide, proposes a further
theory. He says the impact of comets could have splashed dust and rock into
space, transferring life forms from Earth to Mars -- or vice versa. "We
estimate that 500 tons a year of Martian material lands on Earth... this
obviously complicates the issue of life on Mars," he said. In 1911, for
example, an Egyptian dog was struck and killed by "a chunk of Mars."

"The discovery of life beyond Earth would transform not only our science but
also religions and our entire world view," Davies said.

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3) PROFESSOR SAYS KILL A BIGFOOT TO PROVE IT'S REAL

[This story appeared in the Seattle Times on January 28.]

Gordon  Krantz, anthropology professor at Washington State University, has
touched off a controversy in Bigfoot circles by advocating that a specimen
should be hunted down and killed.

"Someday down the line, 50 years from now, somebody by the rare chance might
just stumble  across the skeleton of a Sasquatch, and then the government
sends out masses of [chimpanzee  researcher] Jane Goodall's granddaughters,
and establishes definitely, they were there, but they're extinct," Krantz
said.  "Everybody will be standing around wringing their hands saying: 'If
only we knew they were real, we could have saved them.'

"Well, they could have been saved if only we would blow one away now. The
first one who bags  one should get a big, big prize. The second one should be
hanged."

One opponent of Krantz's view is Peter Byrne, director of the Bigfoot
Research Project at Oregon's Mount Hood. Byrne, a big-game hunter, undertook
the first major organized Bigfoot expedition in Oregon in 1960. It failed to
produce a Sasquatch, but Byrne hasn't quit looking.

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He now spends much of his time tracking down witnesses, investigating their
stories for holes, sending investigators to look for corroborating evidence,
then entering the results in a computer database. So far, 103 sightings going
back 50 years -- none of them outside the Northwest -- have been deemed
credible by the four-member team working on Mount Hood.

All told, Byrne figures he has spent 16 of the last 35 years looking for
Bigfoot. He still has  never seen one, although he once heard that shrieking
cry in the forest.

"It was a kind ofscreaming roar. Very, very powerful," he said. "It lasted
about five seconds,  there was an interruption of four or five seconds, then
it happened again. I've heard elephants. I've heard tigers. I've never heard
anything like this."

Whatever is finally found in the woods, Byrne said, shouldn't be shot.

"There  are those people who say: 'Shoot one, cut off the head and send it to
me, it's all over.' We realize that could be the answer. But these things
have never harmed anyone, and they've never demonstrated any kind of
aggression, and we feel that any attempt to shoot one would be criminal,"
Byrne said.

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4) "DARK" PLANES ALTERED AVIATION, PROMPTED UFO HYSTERIA

[This review of the new book "Dark Eagles: A History of Top Secret U.S.
Aircraft" appeared in Insight Magazine on January 15. The book's author,
Curtis Peebles, has taken pains to debunk UFOs in previous writings.
Nonetheless, his authoritative documentation of secret U.S. aircraft does
show just how secret, and how advanced, some of our own craft really are --
and why they could be mistaken for alien by an unsuspecting witness. CNI News
thanks Sheldon Wernikoff for this item.]

For the past 50 years, the military has shrouded its most clandestine
operations in the remote deserts of California and Nevada, producing aircraft
that pushed the limits of technology and
military intelligence. With evocative names such as Dreamland, the Ranch,
Area 51 and Groom Lake, these secluded test sites served as launching pads
for aeronautical innovation, not to mention several waves of UFO hysteria.
It was commonly known that "something strange was going on in the desert,"
but accounts in the media ranged from partial truths to complete
fabrications.

In "Dark Eagles: A History of Top Secret U.S. Aircraft" (Presidio Press, 400
pp), aviation historian Curtis Peebles doggedly extracts fact from a mountain
of speculation and conjecture that festered during the Cold War. Sifting
through volumes of declassified military documents, he chronicles the
development of a series of "black" airplanes -- planes tested and operated
under deep secrecy -- and the fundamental changes in airpower and military
strategy that resulted from such efforts.

The book opens at the dawn of the jet age with a detailed explanation of the
XP59A, the first black airplane produced and tested in the early 1940s.
Peebles then focuses on the United States' quest for information about the
Soviet Union during the 1950s and developments in reconnaissance aircraft,
especially the U2. He uncovers the earliest beginnings of stealth technology
and the success Lockheed Corp.  reached with the Have Blue 1001, a plane
virtually invisible to ground radar, and the phased out ultrasecret A-12, one
of the most exotic aircraft ever built.  Jet and stealth technology then
converge to produce the F-117A Senior Trend, the aircraft credited with the
swift Allied victory in the Persian Gulf War.

Laden with technical detail, Dark Eagles appeals more to the aerospace
aficionado than the curious layman.  Peebles painstakingly presents the
development of each aircraft textbook style -- replete with footnotes.

If the reader is patient enough, however, Dark Eagles offers intriguing
anecdotes: narrow escapes in enemy territory, botched flights and lost
planes, secret reconnaissance missions and Cold War hostilities.  The F-117A
project was so clandestine that the pilots could fly only at night -- like
vampires, they were indoors before sun up.

"There was one thing wrong with flying higher than any other man had flown,"
says U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers.  "You couldn't brag about it."

But efforts to keep the eagles in the dark did not go unchecked. Peebles
focuses on the adversarial relationship between the press and the military
and reiterates a debate that fomented during the Cuban Missile Crisis and
resurfaced during the gulf war: "What is more important -- the public's right
to know or national security?" Peebles' opinion is undeniably clear.  He
criticizes the fourth estate's attempt to shed light on the black aircraft
during the Cold War -- reports that informed the American people but also
gave clues to the Soviets that helped them develop their own spy planes.

In the final chapters, Peebles grows increasingly impassioned, lauding the
successes of the dark eagles and lamenting the public's obsession with the
Aurora, a rumored stealth aircraft that is
believed to achieve Mach 5 (3,800 mph) and reach altitudes of more than
100,000 feet. Despite several formal denials by Pentagon officials,
antigovernment hysteria has linked the Aurora to sightings of flying saucers.

In fact, Peebles has written about the Aurora and UFOs extensively, most
recently in "Watch the Skies!  A Chronicle of the Flying Saucer Myth." Again,
he blames the media -- including television shows such as the X-Files and
Hard Copy -- for fueling outlandish government conspiracy theories. According
to Peebles, no member of the popular press is immune to sensationalism.  "The
media at all levels increasingly slips into a tabloid mentality," he writes
in Dark Eagles, "and coverage is often presented as entertainment, where the
'story' becomes more important than the facts, and the truth becomes
irrelevant."

Certainly, Dark Eagles makes no attempt to resemble a Tom Clancy thriller.
Instead, it offers an informative if academic glimpse into the military's
most closely guarded secrets -- those Peebles believes will carry
aeronautical innovation into the 21st century. "Out in the desert at a place
whose name is never spoken," he concludes, "the future of military aviation
technology awaits."

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